Inspired by Intelligentsiya I am joining in Fiji's fight to retain our freedoms of choice in life - before we know it our freedoms will be taken away and what we take for being normal is really not. We must guard against this at all times and fight to retain what can never be suppressed! A government that knowingly and deliberately violates people’s rights loses the moral authority to demand obedience.

Mar 22, 2013

South Pacific's Papa Doc exposed

Apologists for the illegitimate Fijian government led by Frank
Bainimarama have melted away as the regime's true thuggishness has been
exposed.

Fiji tyrant Bainimarama - Pacific's Papa Doc

In the years following Mr Bainimarama's seizure of power, many gave
him the benefit of the doubt, deluding themselves that he was genuinely
concerned about breaking the dominance of the Fijian elite and
protecting Fiji Indians from discrimination.

But in the murk of Fijian politics, it seems no agenda is pure.
Whatever his motives at the start, Mr Bainimarama has morphed into a
stereotypical megalomaniac.

In the unlikely event that anyone still believed in him after he
intimidated the media, suppressed dissidents, repeatedly postponed
elections and tore up a draft constitution (partly paid for by New Zealand), then the ugly truth must have finally dawned when Mr
Bainimarama defended the police thugs shown on video beating up two
prisoners.

There can no longer be any doubt that Mr Bainimarama is the Pacific's Papa Doc. Which raises the question, what can we do?

We can certainly no longer look the other way and pretend it isn't
happening. Neither can we expect that normal diplomatic tut-tutting will
cut any ice. Mr Bainimarama is impervious to such gestures and grows
more arrogant by the month.

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On an individual level, New Zealanders can protest by not going to
Fiji for their holidays. The smiling faces on tourist posters can't
disguise the reality that Fiji is an oppressive police state, run by a
tyrant who is contemptuous of human rights and the rule of law.

But acts of individual conscience are not enough. New Zealand and
Australia should be thinking hard about putting the squeeze on Mr
Bainimarama by applying economic sanctions.

The argument against such sanctions is that they penalise the
innocent. Jobs will be lost and people may go hungry. But that argument
didn't stop the world from blockading South Africa in the apartheid era,
and it worked. Mr Bainimarama has shown he is immune to anything less.

Reminder for the day : Remember this ?

NIMILOTE VEREBASAGA'S NECK WAS BROKEN SAYS WIFE :

The wife of forty-four year old Nimilote Verebasaga says it's been since January 2007 since her husband died and she's still WAITING FOR ANSWERS.

Asinate Verebasaga says her husband was picked up by a truck load of soldiers in full military gear on January the sixth and that the next time she saw him was at a Suva mortuary. She says he had broken ribs and his neck was obviously broken. Where are the answers ? What happened to Nimilote's human rights ? What happened to transparency ? Why is the army covering up ?THE NATION AWAITS ANSWERS AND THE WORLD CONTINUES TO WATCH